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Knowing when to toss out a beauty product can be tricky. Between expiration dates, PAO labels and your own fickle fondness for a certain shade or finish, there are a lot of factors to consider. Not to mention, the physical act of throwing a product into the garbage before it’s completely empty just feels wrong. (Especially when you consider how much money is being tossed out with it!)

However, when it comes to the health of your skin, lids, lips, lashes and hair, it’s important to clean out your beauty bag on the regular. Just like food and medicine, the symptoms of expired beauty products range from ingredients that no longer work (goodbye, skin-firming promises!) to becoming an attractive place for bacteria to settle. That being said, expiration dates “mean nothing if the product isn’t cared for correctly,” says Pierce Rees, a manager with Shoppers Drug Mart Beauty Boutique. “Bathrooms and cars are a big no-no and never refrigerate a product unless indicated, as it can break down actives.”

Nail art enthusiasts, it’s time to show us what you’ve got! Our sister publication, Glow Magazine, and Shoppers Drug Mart have teamed up to create the ultimate summer nail art contest. To enter, all you have to do is try your hand at one of the four nail art designs currently featured on the Shoppers Drug Mart website. Each look makes use of the best nail polish colours for summer and is served up in a very easy-to-follow video tutorial.

For all of you Vancouver beauty-philes, Stila has packed all the ingredients necessary for a West Coast beach look into its handy Vibrant in Vancouver travel palette ($16). From North Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain to the relaxed beaches of English Bay, each colour pays homage to the city’s various treasures. The tawny coral of Tiger Lily […]

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By Randi Bergman and Meagan Wilson

Bonnie Brooks’ reinvigoration of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the flagship’s St. Regis Room in particular (now simply called The Room), has brought hot design names like Proenza Schouler, Thakoon and Erdem well south of Bloor Street. Factor in buzzy in-store appearances—with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, virtually every British designer worth mentioning, and Anna Dello Russo (who will descend with street-style phenom Tommy Ton on April 20)—and Toronto officially has a new nexus of chic.